John Drinkwater - So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as havin...

John Drinkwater Zitate

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

John Drinkwater

Bewertung: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5,0 Sterne

Deutsche Übersetzung

So ist es in der Poesie. Alles, was wir verlangen, ist, dass die aufgezeichnete Stimmung uns beeindrucken soll, als ob sie die Vorstellungskraft erschöpft; Wenn dies nicht der Fall ist, meldet sich der Fehler entweder in Prosa oder in unbedeutenden Versen.

← Vorheriges Zitat

Nächstes Zitat →

Ähnliche Autoren

Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley W. H. Auden William Blake William Wordsworth

Ähnliche Zitate

It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high.

Timothy Morton

In Judaism, almost every ritual entails either food or the absence of food. Yom Kippur, for instance, is the absence of food. Part of it is Talmudic, part of it is custom. So much of Judaism was bound up in dietary laws. So everything you ate - the very act itself - was part of religion.

Gil Marks

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

Carl Hiaasen

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

Claude Debussy

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate.

David Mitchell

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

Frank Auerbach

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

Nelson A. Miles

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Sonny Perdue